The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 115

He sat so still that you would have thought he was frozen.

Who acts: Kay, you · What happens: sit, think, freeze · To what, where: Kay

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 thought	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	aux
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 frozen	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frozen	aux:pass
12	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thought	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sit	past	Kay		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	would · perfect	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	freeze	past · passive		Kay		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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